The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-12-08
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Items o. Interes, Gathered rron yarioa.
QaaEters.

Jdcou ondIp mas Deen IelehSeu on Dnll.
Venice is slowly sinking into the sel
Judge Francis L, Anderson Of Lexipg.
ton, Va, Is dead.
A carload Of cotton was burned at Pros.
perity yesterday.
No. rs Broadway, New York city, was
burned last night. Loss $4,000.
For the month of November the Govern
ment paid out over $4,000, 600 on pen
sions.
The revenues Of the Government from
all sources during the month of November
amounted to about $50, 100000.
The Anarchists have been presented with
q handsome cemetery lot In Chicago for the
| burial of the men who were hanged.
The Grand Lodge of South Carolina
| Free Masons will hold their annual confer
! ence in Charleston on December 13 and ID
A dispatch from London announces that
Mr.. Shechy, M. p, has been arrested and
is now in Sligo prison.
| A number of members Of the Chamber
of Deputies yesterday requested President
Grevy not to resign.
A farmer named lrby yesterday shot and
| killed two colored men who attacked him
on his farm In Marlboro county.
| M. Gaunt, a wealthy colored resident of
Xenia, o., has decided his PROPERTY, valued
at $4,000, to Wherefore University.
Mr. E. M. Moreland yesterday bought
in Charleston $3.50, 900 in Confederate bills
at twenty-five cents per thousand.
Mrs. Mary J. Robertson, for over thirty
years president of the Calhoun Monument
| Association in Charleston, died yesterday.
During the present intense cold in the
Northwest steam-h heating of railroad trains
has been practiccd with entire success.
w. r. Fuller, State Auditor of Arkan
sas, died yesterday. He was twice elected
Governor.
An explosion of choke damp occurred
yesterday in a colliery in Porcmba, Silesia
killing thirteen miners and wounding many
others.
A London dispatch says that Sullivan
and Mitchell were matched last night tc
fight to the finish, with bare knuckles, fol
e5U0 a side.
Ex-Governor St. John of Kansas says
that the Prohibition party is the only ono
that is increasing in numbers. He will moi
be candidate for the Presidency on any
terms.
John II. Parker, foreman of the planning
mill at Darby's mills, in PalatlIa, Fla, was
caught In the shafting yesterday afternoon
and was killed before the engine could bC
stopped.
DR.. Telschow, court dentist, has beer
summoned to San Reno to operatc On tn,
Crown Princes teeth. This would seem
to indicate that the Princes condition has
improved
The building of the Strobridge Lilho
graphing Company in Cincinnati was dc
stroycd by fire yesterday morning Loss
estimated at Il half million; insured fol
$l50,000.
Michael O'Bricn, tramp who brutally
outraged Miss MCGregor in Alamosa, Col.
recently, was taken from Jail Wednesday
night by citizens and hanged. The rccov
cry of the girl is doubtful.
Dan Swygert purchased yesterday from
| Dwycr Brothers the great colt Trcmcnt foI
$25, 900, this being the largest sum ever
paid in this country for a home bred thor
oughbred for stud purposes.
a thirteen year old colorcd boy ATTEMPTED
yesterday to board freight train at AT.
lanta and steal ride to Chattanooga. lie
fell, and his left foot was so badly crushed
as to neccssitatc amputaticn.
a news vcudcr at Killarney has been sen
fenced to a months Imprisonment for sell
ing copies of United Ireland containing re,
ports Of meetings of suppressed branches
of the National League.
The Car has commuted to degradation
to the ranks the sentences Of eighteen
young officers who were convicted Of en-
| gaging in revolutionary conspiracy and
sentenced to exile in Siberia
Henry Overstaltz, president Of the insol-
vent Fifth National Bank of ST. Louis, and
eX Mayor of that city, died Yesterday of
heart disease. He did not know that the
bank had suspended.
The surveying party, which under dircc,
ton Of the Nicaragua Canal Construction
Company will make the final surveys,
sailed on the steamer Houdo from New
York yesterday. The survey will not be
completed until April or May.
The commanders of the different army
corps in France have received scaled in
structions which they arc to open in the
event of an outbreak following the election
of a new President
President Cleveland has made $50, ,OCO
by the increase in value Of "Rcd Top" tho
country place he bought near Washington.
Secretary Whitney is reported to have done
better, by realizing $4,000 profit by .hc
sale of land he bought in the vicinity.
| a shock of earthquake was felt at Chor-
| icy, county OF Lancaster, England, at +
o'clock yesterday morning. 4 rumbing
noise accompanied the shock. Buildings
shook and people ran out of their houses.
| NO serious damage was done.
The corporation of Dublin unanimously
elected Mr.. Sexton Lord Mayor yesterday,
to succeed Mr.. Sullivan In speech he
said that every day developed new attacks
upon the lives and liberties of the Irish
people.
Maria Steel, a negro woman, died in Sa-
vannah yesterday, after having reached the
remarkable age of 115 years. She was
born In Rockingham county, North Caro-,
lima, in 1772, She leaves two children.
who are now very old men.
Intense excitement prevailed in France
yesterday. Some of President Crews bit
tcrest foes of two weeks ago now bcsccch
him to withhold his contemplated resigna
ton. The President decided to make no
communication to the Chamber of Dcpu
| ties.
Doc Wilson, an employe of the South
Carolina Railroad, met with painful iniu-
ries yesterday at the freight yard in Ham
burg. While coupling cars his right hand
was caught between the bumpers and badly
mashed, his thumb being crushed to q Jelly.
A Greenvillc special to the NcaOs and
Courier says an inquest was held Yesterday